You spend hours trying not to die, fighting various horrific enemies and some asshole at a higher level with better gear always has to come and try to stab you in the back, I killed countless enemies, and died plenty of times. Some people fought fair, others blew me off ledges with their white magic

Yeah, but those people are still limited by the rules of the game, so claiming they're "higher level" is not accurate. Give invaders a break. They're much more likely to invade a ganker or somebody much higher level than themselves.

I've walked a mile in the shoes of a darkwraith. Generally, they're at a disadvantage. They might get somebody ten levels lower than them, or, more likely, a hundred levels higher. Plus, the person being invaded can easily summon help, or know they're being invaded ahead of time and prepare some kind of trap accordingly.

however the people invading are the ones wanting pvp
and the ones who want pvp tend to be the ones who are either really good at the game or have twinked their character in some way with really strong gear
there are far more people just playing the game normaly who dont want to be invaded then there are people invading

I run into quite a few people who clearly want to be invaded, and are staying in one place and using the Dried Finger in order to get invaded as much as they can. They're often not even gankers, but just people looking for PvP. And, again, you can always summon other players or Solair/Lautrec/Tarkus.

Though, you're right, twinking is pretty lame. Luckily, matchmaking will be based on some kind of skill rating in DS2, and not player level.

I know that ******* problem, I was just in blight-town when I got invaded with someone who had 100% op set-up, a fully upgraded notched whip with fire, 99x poison daggers, 99x toxic dung pies, and fully upgraded elite knight armor + bloated head for his obvious lols. did i mention he had 1250 health at blight town level and that he could 2 shot me? that wasn't even including lobbing all those ****** items 24/7. some people are dicks and trolls.

oh and i got invaded by a giant dad just outside the church in the parish, he literally one shooted me and could only barely scratch his health..

Just yesterday I was going through Anor Lando, right after the part where you walk on the rafters, and I got invaded. So I hit the switch and lower the platform so I can go fight the guy, instead he had followed behind me and hit the switch again so to get to him I had to go back over the rafters. We ended up spending half an hour with him throwing dung pies at me from up above until I finally decided to equip purple moss and cross the rafters. Asshole had a dragonslayer greatbow.
mfw

Yeah, I hate gankers, I wish I could show you but I don't have a TV to plug into my ps3, but basically, I built what I call "The Ganker Tanker" It's max level, havels, minus the head and maybe another part, the crown that boosts magic, havels shield + havels ring, with the cyrstal catalyst and a talisman I had some fun times, eradicating multiple gankers at once.

****** little kids and assholes always ruin games, so it's fun to give them a taste of their own medicine every now and then, sure I got killed plenty of times, but I killed plenty more, and yeah darkroot garden was probably the worst.

I love how people dont realize you can't invade a person with a level that isn't within 10% of your own level, you dont get invaded by high levels, but someone could go through the game at level 1 and get a chaos rapier and instantly kill people in the burg

Well I know that, but heres a question, how often are you gonna invade gankers with that blue orb? Also, I myself invade at level 125, no higher or lower, because its a solid level to get your build at maximum damage and defense, as long as you spend your points in the right place

I maxed leveled, havels, DLC magic boosting crown, crystal catalyst and and best tailismin, dark bead, white pulse, havels ring, medium role, can't remember if I used havels shield on this build. Got to say, nothing as satisfying as taking out ****** little kids who think they're so damn good ganging up on people.

YOU can invade people who are higher level. Nobody that is above your level by more than 10% can invade you. You can invade anyone 10% below you, or indefinitely above. Cat covenant doesn't change this.

I rek people in darkroot garden with they try to duel me, I just wait at the ledges and i dont even try to knock them off, just with the way I play it works good so I dont have to worry about them walking behind me